Police: Cellphone Camera Found In Ceiling Of Faculty Bathroom At L.I. School

SOUTH HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island man has been accused of placing a hidden cellphone camera and taking videos of staff and faculty inside the bathroom of a South Huntington school, police said.

The iPhone was discovered last Thursday after someone noticed a ceiling tile out of place in the co-ed faculty restroom at the Countrywood Primary Center, 1010 WINS’ Mona Rivera reported.

“There was a little crack where the phone was placed above it,” said Steve Bartholomew, spokesman for South Huntington school district, adding the school’s faculty members are horrified. “The staff is upset, there’s a certain sense of violation.”

Police arrested 31-year-old Kevin Clancy, of Glen Head, a computer IT technician from an outside company who was assigned to do work at the school.

Sources tell 1010 WINS Clancy worked for Custom Computer Specialists of Hauppauge, N.Y., a major supplier of IT services for school districts. The company did not immediately return a call for comment.

Clancy has been charged with second degree unlawful surveillance. Police seized the phone and Clancy’s computers.